We pardon to the extent that we love.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULDPassion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.
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We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.
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The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.
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Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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There is no better proof of a man’s being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
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Perfect Valor is to do, without a witness, all that we could do before the whole world.
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The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.
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There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
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Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted.
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There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.
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No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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Pride, which inspires us with so much envy, is sometimes of use toward the moderating of it too.
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